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Fluorite from
Valhalla, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Colour:Greenish, violet.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Valhalla, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:81504
Long-form Identifier:1:3:81504:0
GUID (UUID V4):5b06159a-8004-46b5-906b-7a735709e183
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
20.4km (12.6 miles) Dyke Park, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
29.4km (18.3 miles) 168th Street & Harlem River, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
32.8km (20.4 miles) Bear Mountain, Bear Mountain State Park, Orange County, New York, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
38.8km (24.1 miles) 53rd Street & Broadway, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
39.2km (24.4 miles) Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA
42.1km (26.2 miles) Mount Taurus Quarry, Town of Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, USA
46.0km (28.6 miles) North Street mall, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
50.6km (31.5 miles) Shaft 7, Delaware Aqueduct, Town of Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, USA
51.0km (31.7 miles) State Route 111 road cuts, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy at Michigan Technological University. A native New Yorker, he has had a lifelong interest in the minerals...of the state and is a research associate at the New York State Museum. 458 ROCKS & MINERALS Dr. Steven...minerals of New York State and is coordinator of the Center for Mineralogy at the New York State Museum...University] at 04:12 29 December 2014 The GEMS of NEW YORK State J ust what constitutes a gemstone has...such as opal, aquamarine, or tourmaline. Although New York State is not known for its traditional precious
Report (issue)
BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS ENVIRONS...ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY ... James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author has...his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years,
Book
MtN€RfllS of New Vork Stole David €. Jensen Includes 16 pages of minerals in full color jgS0% MIN6RRLS... MIN6RRLS of New Vork State David E. Jensen up WARD PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc...Inc. Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David E. Jensen All rights reserved...mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York State. While obtainu University of Roc Science...Kay Preface This report on the Minerals of New York State is partially a sum­ mary of published knowledge
Book
T TLIBRAr 3 1223 90016 3958 of New York State David E. Jensen .. . , ,,, Includes 16 pages of...Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn Yan, New York...blossomed into a lifetime interest in the minerals of New York State. While obtaining his M.S. in geology at...the outline of New York State is LABRADORJTE from the Saranac Lake area. of New York State David E....Natural Science Establishment, Inc . • Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse. MAJOR NEW YORK STATE M I N E...E R A L LOC A L I T I E S N ew York State is rich in minerals of interest to collectors. A number of...Dana 1877, 1892). Herbert P. Whitlock published a New York State list in 1903. The most recent comprehensive...localities in the state is the book Minerals of New York State by David Jensen, published in 1978. Our...Mode of Occurrence Most mineral localities in New York can be categorized into three groups based on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITES OF NEW YORK STATE, USA Marian V. LUPULESCU§ Research and Collections, New York State Museum...Museum, Albany, New York 12230, USA Jeffrey R. CHIARENZELLI Department of Geology, St. Lawrence University...Canton, New York 13617, USA David G. BAILEY Geosciences Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York...York 13323, USA Abstract Pegmatites in New York State are largely restricted to areas of exposed Precambrian...(scheelite). The pegmatite bodies from southern New York State and from some of the southern Adirondack
Book (edition)
PENNSYLVAN1 A & NEW JERSEY «s m •p ■* ; sms •v ■1 mm D 'A ©F PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY By Scott...to man or nature, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, its publisher and all other persons directly............ Physiographic Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 5 6 7 9 10 12 PENNSYLVANIA SITE NO. PAGE...Shelocta Siderite Concretions..... New Paris Fluorite....................... New Enterprise Banded Chert............. Ickesburg Trilobites.................... New Bloomfield Devonian Fossils Mt. Hope White Quartzite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and shear zone–hosted uranium occurrences in the Mount Isa inlier, Australia. As well as containing uranium...enhanced dissolution of regional carbonates and fluorite from the granite, providing the ligands needed...Tomkins and Evans, 2015). In the Mesoproterozoic Mount Isa inlier (Queensland, Australia), there is a series...uraniumbearing REE (U-REE) deposit, 50 km to the east of Mount Isa. Fine-grained accessory minerals and grain boundaries...accessory minerals that contain these ele- B Valhalla JB MIG 20°30’ S ECV N 20°40’ S KPM 2.5
Catalog/List
little white stilbite.Pretty RF TN.£4 2) BARITE,Mount Wellington Mine,Gwennap,Cornwall.Vitreous translucent...90x70x60.£48 9) FLUORITE,Hilton Mine,Scordale,Cumbria.A druse ofyelllow coloured fluorite cubes to 10mm...£97 30) FLUORITE with Pyrite and Quartz, Kara Oba, Kazachstan. Pale green/white zoned fluorite octahedron...Mn)(VO4h(OH).Rare++. MO brown XN. TN. £8 38) SURSASSITE, New Brunswick,Canada. Mn2Ah(SiO4)(SiiO7)(OH)3 . Rare+...White-yellow tint XG. MM. £9 Precious Metals/Quartz/Fluorite ----------------------,,------- 41) MALACHITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
21206 Treasurer—Carl Krotki, 170 West End Avenue, New York, N. Y . 10023 Assistant Treasurer—Jack T. Burrus...Quarry at Rockville, Md., where a number of minerals new to the members were collected. - - - - Norman Welfley...trip to Mifflin County. Member Bob Cox of the Rock and Min­ eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills...Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association, Lehigh Valley. The York Rock and Mineral Club surveyed the results of recent...as a house warming for John Thompson's new rock shop. NEW YORK ing devoted to comments on Hunting for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Spring, Md. 20901 Minerals Theme: Education Opens New Horizons SAFETY NOTE Recently a number of bulletins...erals with the new Polaroid film, 55-P-N. The Club has three large windows in the new Mississippi Museum...members have joined the silversmithing class. NEW YORK The Cayuga Gem and Mineral Club, Auburn, gave...Herbert Hauptmann told the mem­ bers of the Westchester Mineral and Gem Society, Eastchester, about his...Properties of Minerals The Stanley Bentons of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, went to the Cree
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and O-rich) led to the formation of sulphides, fluorite, U-phosphosilicate, quartz, and magnetite, respectively...few of them such as Kirovograd, Ukraine [1,3], Valhalla, Australia [6], Michelin, Canada [7,8], Elkon...Aricheng, Guyana [14,15], Kitongo [16], Coles Hill, USA [1], Espinharas, Brazil [17], and Itataia [18] (Table...Geochemistry Formation Temp. Ore Age (Ga) References Valhalla, Australia, 57, 0.07% Mylonitised metabasalt...and Ti Gain: K, Fe, U, Au 0.135 [1] Coles Hill, USA, 45, 0.054% Deformed granite, augen gneiss, amphibolite
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (issue)
............................... NEW LOCALITIES IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N . Y. By Evelyn lf/aite ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Co11d11cted by R11doif C. B. Bartsch.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 NEW HA VEN MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Nevertheless if the specimens were from localities new to us we received some pleasure in exa1n ining them...them immediately with the Post Office Inspector, New York, N. Y . LS 1er un :er. .ess vas ,eJ. ich
Journal (issue)
same for distribution; to encoura1e the search for new minerals that have not yet been discovered; and to...--- - - - - -- ------ -~ --- ------ ---- Each new member helps to extend the Association's activities--helps... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4 NEW OCCURRENCE FOR OUMORTIERITE . . . . . . . . . . ...you all and give you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year full of courage and full of hope. the sun can...Christmas Cifts There is going to be a tremendous a mount of nervous energy expended during the next few weeks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW YORK MINERAIOGICAL CI,UB American Museum of Notural History, New Yorh City, Oetober19...from the new Queens Tunnel dump in Flushing Bay. J. A. Taylor had minute modified fluorite crystals from...the new water tunnel at Valhalla. A. C. Hawkins showed long needle-like gypsum crystals from New Mexico...Secretary American Museum of Natural Hislory, New York City, Notember 16, 1938 The meeting was called...Secretory American Museunz oJ Nalural History, New Yorh City, December21, 1938 The meeting was called
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TREASURER Carl K r o t k i 250 W. 5 7 t h St. New York, N. Y. 10019 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT C l i f f o r...r d C. Anthes 930 Madison A v e n u e Union, New Jersey GENERAL SHOW C H A I R M A N M a l v i n J....associated minerals. New Jersey Societies have scheduled trips to Sayreville, New Jersey for pyrite and...Pennsylvania for quartz crystals; for serpentine at Lake Valhalla; to the Summit Quarry of the Houdaille Construction...Materials Company, Inc., an active quarry, Summit. New Jersey, for zeolite, stilbite, prehnite, chabasite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
QUARRY-NORTH NEW JERSEY By RUSSELL M. WOOD 40 Jump Hill Rd., Levittown. Pa. 19056 Northwestern New Jersey...Jersey, particularly Sussex County, is blessed with a plethora of localities for both the rockbound and the...crinoid stem "meadow", the New Jersey coral reef, the Hamburg Quarry, the Lake Valhalla serpentine, the uranium...few of them-there is the even chance of adding a new variety or two to your collection. As well, for those...feet across. Three main levels were evident and a new pit was being started on one side. The Franklin-Ogdensburg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Southern Breccia zone shares attributes of the Valhalla (Australia) and Lagoa Real (Brazil) albitite-hosted...2009; Cuney et al. 2012). Key examples include Valhalla in Australia (Polito et al. 2009; 34.7 Mt @ 830...Lentz 1990) indicates that we have identified 36 new individual U showings with eU contents exceeding...and other major albitite-hosted U deposits like Valhalla (Australia), Aricheng (Guyana), Espinharas and...Breccia are also similar to those observed in the Valhalla deposit, the Aricheng South U occurrences and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with your tweezers, and lean back to enjoy your new status as a gold pros­ pector. E A S Y ? Sometimes... T a k e this road to the entrance to L a k e Valhalla. G o thru the gates and turn right where the road...Quarry is at the rear of the parking lot. Purple fluorite, blue apatite crystals and graphite are con­ tained
Report (issue)
Australia.......................................... New Zeal and...........................................of Eastern Europe, China, and the U.S.S.R. Many new important discoveries are not included. Some small...precipitation of uranium (e.g., southern San Juan Basin, New Mexico). Squyres (1972) proposed that humic acids...essential factors are favorable for exploration to find new sandstone ores. The deposition of uranium, molybdenum...and vein deposits of Spanish Meseta, Portugal). Fluorite is a characteristic associate of uranium in moderate-sized
Journal (issue)
By Peter Zodac...... .. 7 5 Autunite in Mitchell County, North Carolina. By Bradley Johnson .............;EI... IOL) How to Collect Minerals <,lC,"-oE'} New popular~ for p!_,,. ar,d p,ofit M tducotiiOtlOI po...localpanied by muscoYite (which generaUy ity in New York is Bedford, a little is s tained brownish by lhnouite)...Westthe deep l,lack Yariety of smoky quartz chester County, not far from the Conknown as morion. Small black...collected at different places in Herkin1er County, New York, in 1930, and subsequently examined under
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
29501 TREASURER Carl Krotki 250 W . 57th St. New York, N. Y . 10019 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT Kenneth V. Zohn..."Growth" is based on the wish to reach out towards new contacts and broader knowledge. More than 30 percent...are to be available soon. The Rules will be in a new format and with several significant changes, so get...in attendance from Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Canada, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland...around was as long as the first. The sessions at the New Williamsburg Inn on Friday and Saturday nights after
 
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